Data compression is the compacting of data by lowering the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. As a result, the compressed data takes considerably less disk space than the initial one, so extra content can be stored using the same amount of space. You will find different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with a lot of them just the redundant bits are deleted, therefore once the data is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete excessive bits, but uncompressing the data later on will lead to lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content needs a significant amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, so every web hosting platform that employs compression in real time should have sufficient power to support that attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" the number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the actual code.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm which we use on the cloud web hosting platform where your new cloud web hosting account will be created is called LZ4 and it is applied by the exceptional ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is far better than the ones other file systems work with since its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data a lot faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens more quickly than information can be read from a hard drive. Because of this, LZ4 improves the performance of each website stored on a server which uses the algorithm. We take full advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio allow us to produce a number of daily backup copies of the full content of all accounts and keep them for thirty days. Not only do our backup copies take less space, but also their generation won't slow the servers down like it can often happen with many other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's one of the best algorithms out there and definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will speed up every site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, which is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and have them for one month as they will take a reduced amount of space than typical backups and will be generated much faster without loading the servers.